

It said there had been suspicious activity on my account, asked ‘do you recognise this transaction?’, if not call this number. Speaking on ITV's This Morning, she said: “ I received the text, but this wasn’t unusual as I’ve had messages from them before.

It says your debit card was recently used and names a store and the amount spent. So if you've saved your bank's number in your phone, it will look like it's come from that number.

Worryingly, it comes on the same thread on your phone as genuine text messages from your bank because a mobile number is effectively being spoofed. The text will inform you that there has been suspicious activity on your account. You will receive an inconspicuous looking text from 'your bank.' So, to stay clear of this scam here is what you need to know about it. The bank is also not obliged to pay back the money that has been stolen from her. WATCH: The Spice nightmare that's turning Piccadilly Gardens into hell on earth.Worse still, it's not easily identifiable as fraud with one consumer expert saying it's not the type of message that would necessarily have set alarm bells ringing. One scam that's currently circulating cost someone over £70,000, WalesOnline have reported. Scam texts howeve are a more serious issue. And while spam texts are hugely annoying and inconvenient they are nothing more than that.

E-mail scams are very common and usually easy enough to decipher.
